Rich Rauenzahn wrote:
> John Pettitt wrote:
>>>
>>>
>> What happens is the newly transfered file is compared against candidates
>> in the pool with the same hash value and if one exists it's just
>> linked, The new file is not compressed. It seems to me that if you
>> want to change
John Pettitt wrote:
What happens is the newly transfered file is compared against candidates
in the pool with the same hash value and if one exists it's just
linked, The new file is not compressed. It seems to me that if you
want to change the compression in the pool the way to go i
Rich Rauenzahn wrote:
>
>
> I know backuppc will sometimes need to re-transfer a file (for instance,
> if it is a 2nd copy in another location.) I assume it then
> re-compresses it on the re-transfer, as my understanding is the
> compression happens as the file is written to disk.(?)
>
> Woul
Craig Barratt wrote:
> You're right.
>
> Each file in the pool is only compressed once, at the current
> compression level. Matching pool files is done by comparing
> uncompressed file contents, not compressed files.
>
> It's done this way because compression is typically a lot more
> expensive
Ok, thanks a lot for this information.
It's very interessting.
Regards,
Romain
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Re: [Backup
Craig Barratt wrote:
> Rich writes:
>
>
>> I don't think BackupPC will update the pool with the smaller file even
>> though it knows the source was identical, and some tests I just did
>> backing up /tmp seem to agree. Once compressed and copied into the
>> pool, the file is not updated with fu
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Re: [BackupPC-users] Compression level
Rich writes:
> I don't think BackupPC will up
Rich writes:
> I don't think BackupPC will update the pool with the smaller file even
> though it knows the source was identical, and some tests I just did
> backing up /tmp seem to agree. Once compressed and copied into the
> pool, the file is not updated with future higher compressed copies.
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I would like to have an information about compression level.
>
> I'm still doing several tests about compression and I would like to
> have your opinion about something :
> I think that there is a very little difference between level 1 and
> level 9.
> I to
Hello,
I would like to have an information about compression level.
I'm still doing several tests about compression and I would like to have
your opinion about something :
I think that there is a very little difference between level 1 and level
9.
I tought that I will be more.
For example, wit
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